SDR DSD unitrunker and virtual cable issues

[slicerwizard]

Gawd - years-old videos and blog posts that will never die - forever giving outdated advice. Hm, that includes here. Oh well!

Two dongles - good to have in case one breaks (internally, USB connector, ...); also good for mapping out new non-P25 trunking systems - monitor the CC with one dongle and use the other to find the voice channels. Also good to have a variety, like the standard rtl-sdr.com or Nooelec dongles, plus an orange FlightAware Pro Stick (awesome sensitivity)

Just don't try to order the Pro Sticks in the GTA - the Amazon warehouse in Mississauga will send you the blue ADS-B -only Pro Stick Plus dongles and they're crap for VHF/UHF/700/800/900 use.

 

[lonlywolf65]

Good evening...I have 3 of the same kind as of now... plan to use for the base station.... and make one mobile.......
OK I need to learn a lil more here.. In the last few days I have gotten 2 fast lane updates.... Do I open them and drop them into fast lane and over write... running win 10.... once I get thru this update I have a ??? about how to run a 2nd RTL... one thing at a time...

 

[slicerwizard]

Yes, each update overwrites some existing files.

 

[lonlywolf65]

Ok I play around in BIOS yet I have a problem..... I just got a message saying I got a DSD update.... ok Cool go find it and copy paste..overwrite all done have a nice day...... Um where did it go not in downloads..? no email... self update ?? cant be that easy lol...Once i find it save a copy to folder then c/p to fast lane ... overwrite... continue

 

[slicerwizard]

Did you look in your DSD+ folder?

 

[a417]

Ok I play around in BIOS yet I have a problem....

What are you doing in the BIOS?!

 

[lonlywolf65]

Good morning... I was not in the bios for anything related to SDR... matter of fact I could not get into due to not knowing the password and that was all prior to installing win 10. Wss trying to get to the display options so i could run a different vid card


Am still looking for thew download...?? Yes I looked into DSD+ folder, tho not really sure what I am looking for ? Would it be possible for someone to show me what it would look like??

 

[a417]

Good morning... I was not in the bios for anything related to SDR... matter of fact I could not get into due to not knowing the password and that was all prior to installing win 10. Wss trying to get to the display options so i could run a different vid card


Am still looking for thew download...?? Yes I looked into DSD+ folder, tho not really sure what I am looking for ? Would it be possible for someone to show me what it would look like??

I have replaced many a video card and can count on one hand the number of times I've had to change a BIOS setting to do ANYTHING with it. Disabling onboard is what my most current trend for that was, back many moons ago it was enabling BIOS-shadowing, but that's neither here nor there.

So you get the DSD+ email, they send you an attached file. You save it locally to your computer, you open it with the password, you extract the files to your computer, then you copy them all into the same folder as the DSD 1.01 files to give yourself the full set. You then make a copy of this folder AND FILES, and work out of the copy.

 

[lonlywolf65]

About a week ago I got an email with an update... which I Copy/paste that as directed all was good.... then last Thursday I got a pop up on screen saying I have an update...I clicked download poof it was over nothing more saying or asking where it went...


And yes the video was onboard the motherboard... I could not get a signal out of the new vid card but ya not involved with this thread...

 

[DRL-XM43]

About a week ago I got an email with an update... which I Copy/paste that as directed all was good.... then last Thursday I got a pop up on screen saying I have an update...I clicked download poof it was over nothing more saying or asking where it went...


And yes the video was onboard the motherboard... I could not get a signal out of the new vid card but ya not involved with this thread...

make sure you use 7zip and not the windows unzip which does not work. You will need your DSD+ password. It will download to your DSD+ folder.

 

[a417]

Did you look in your DSD+ folder?

make sure you use 7zip and not the windows unzip which does not work. You will need your DSD+ password. It will download to your DSD+ folder.

 

[DRL-XM43]

Deleted by me

 

[lonlywolf65]

It worked before.... I redid the update It still works.... Havent seen a pop up yet...


Now onto more fun things... how to listen to aircraft...??

 

[a417]

So it worked? What popup are you looking for?

 

[lonlywolf65]

Saying I have a DSD update.... none since yesterday... I redid the update...

 

[a417]

have you looked in your DSD+ file for a .zip file?


click "OK"



click "OK"



now go into what ever folder you are running DSD+ and look for this.




You may have already done the first 2 (a couple of times), but you need to look for this zip file.

 

[lonlywolf65]

I did and replaced again.... no pop ups guess I got it

 

[slicerwizard]

You can't see what version you're running?

 

[lonlywolf65]

where would i look?

 

[a417]

The first line of screen output from the program is the version number/info.

The first line of the DSD.EVENTS file is also the version number/info.

This may be one of the few programs that doesn't honor the (traditional) -v flag for version info, because it's constantly telling you what version you are running.